What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III?

[Taqwus]

I think the nastiest surprise I've seen so far was seeing the Hunter of Heroes eat multiple of my non-horror-marked HoFers before the HHNerf mod.

Starting in the dead center of a random map and rapidly needing to deal with war on six fronts was also a very unpleasant surprise in one game.

SP: Playing MA C'Tis and fighting a two front war against Caelum and Arcos, trading land for time and slowly wearing down their several hundred strong armies. (lots of elephants from Arcos)
When on my third front Ulm starts invading with a 2k+ army.
First SP game i lost since the early days of Dom2.
Annoyed me especially since i had a lot of spies in Ulm and so could tell that this invasion army consisted of about 90% of all his troops. If the dastard had tried that in multiplayer he'd have been eviscerated by the other nations that bordered him. But the AIs there left him alone for at least a dozen turns which was when i gave up, having no more land to use for attrition tactics. Especially since by then Ulm had recruited another thousand or so troops ready to reinforce the remainders of the first army.
On the plus side, i found a lot of nasty tricks to pull off to inflict disruption and casualites on national armies with minimal losses. (except the provinces of course)

[Epaminondas]

Dhaeron said:
SP: Playing MA C'Tis and fighting a two front war against Caelum and Arcos, trading land for time and slowly wearing down their several hundred strong armies. (lots of elephants from Arcos)
When on my third front Ulm starts invading with a 2k+ army.
First SP game i lost since the early days of Dom2.
Annoyed me especially since i had a lot of spies in Ulm and so could tell that this invasion army consisted of about 90% of all his troops. If the dastard had tried that in multiplayer he'd have been eviscerated by the other nations that bordered him. But the AIs there left him alone for at least a dozen turns which was when i gave up, having no more land to use for attrition tactics. Especially since by then Ulm had recruited another thousand or so troops ready to reinforce the remainders of the first army.
On the plus side, i found a lot of nasty tricks to pull off to inflict disruption and casualites on national armies with minimal losses. (except the provinces of course)

What was the AI difficulty level? 2000 units is a lot of units!

[Baalz]

Getting hit by the random event that "Faith is decreasing but crops are growing faster"....on the second turn....while playing Mictlan. Doh! Fortunately that was a SP game and obviously I hadn't invested much time in it yet. Still, pretty funny.

[Manuk]

I was playing a 4-player-blitz (my second that day).

First thing I did when I saw where quantum mechanic were, was to attack him. I thought I could get fast to his capitol but he was really prepared to repel me. So It became a bloody war, specially when his pretender showed up. (I was massing a really big amount of crappy units there).

Then, in between turns i thought "they are taking too long to make their turns, Im going to rest for 5 minutes and then continue playing".
But when I woke up it was about 9 am in the morning. They sure must have wait for long for me to play.

Mental note: if you are too tired don´t play a blitz.

[quantum_mechani]

Manuk said:
I was playing a 4-player-blitz (my second that day).

First thing I did when I saw where quantum mechanic were, was to attack him. I thought I could get fast to his capitol but he was really prepared to repel me. So It became a bloody war, specially when his pretender showed up. (I was massing a really big amount of crappy units there).

Then, in between turns i thought "they are taking too long to make their turns, Im going to rest for 5 minutes and then continue playing".
But when I woke up it was about 9 am in the morning. They sure must have wait for long for me to play.

Mental note: if you are too tired don´t play a blitz.

Ah, so that's what happened.

[alexti]

My nastiest surprise in Dom3: Ghost King casting few buffs including stoneskin.